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McLain a ‘role model’ for those who stand against hate Editor: Regarding “Victim no more,” by Linda Sickler: Travis McLain is my best friend. We’ve been through hell together, and I would go through it again for him. We both know what it’s like to know you’re different and feel that you’re wrong for being…

Books: Dr. Selzer@AASU

Maimonides. Chekhov. Keats. Rabelais. William Carlos Williams. Richard Selzer chuckles while ticking off names of his predecessors as if seating arrangements for an Algonquin soiree. He is but one, he says, in a long line of physician-writers. “I’m the one that’s just alive,” the former surgeon and Yale Medical School professor, now almost 78, explains…

The Blotter

Two alert police officers ended an early morning crime spree on Wilmington Island. Officers John Nordham and Joe Toth were called to Suncrest Boulevard March 28 on a report of a stolen vehicle. They observed a car fitting the description being followed by two other cars, which quickly crossed U.S. 80 at Suncrest Boulevard. When…

News of the Weird

Do Your Shoplifting Elsewhere Increasingly, police departments and government offices (customs agencies, NASA, even the FBI) rely on state-of-the-art investigation support from the Target Corp. (as in Target department stores), according to a January Washington Post report. Targetís world-class forensics lab in Minneapolis is the first choice by many departments for examination of surveillance tapes…


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